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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Drill vs. Dolt vs. KeyDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Drill vs. Dolt vs. KeyDB vs. SpatiaLite

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comdrill.apache.orggithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
github.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.dolthub.comdocs.keydb.devwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationDoltHub IncEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release19842012201820192008
Current releasev20, April 20231.20.3, January 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linuxserver-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protoco
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C++Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyes infocurrently in alpha releaseLuano
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsDepending on the underlying data sourceOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupsimple password-based access control and ACLno

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